The Job Placement Training program provides students with the professional and vocational skills that are in demand by employers in the Middle East and North Africa region and places students in jobs upon graduation.

Research and Evidence

With high levels of global youth unemployment and a shortage of job seekers with the critical skills employers are searching for, McKinsey asks: "how can a country successfully move its young people from education to employment?" This report analyzes more than 100 education-to-employment intitiatives from 25 countries and couples their results from a McKinsey-designed survey of youth, education providers, and employers in nine geographically and socioeconomically diverse countries.

The Rockefeller Foundation, which funds programs to increase technology skills education in anticipation of tomorrow's job markets, released this 2-pager overview of present technology-and-skills-for-work challenges that Africa faces and the steps the Foundation plans to take in the years ahead to bridge these knowledge and training gaps.

A collection of the efforts to build high-quality business consortiums in the developing world. The report opens with a response to the question: "why does management education matter?" and highlights 10 case studies in developing countries with tehmes like "Giving Post-War Europe an Economic Boost" and "Breaking New Ground with an Industry Driven School". The GBSN closes with commentary on "lessons learned" and "programs in action."

This paper presents findings from a large randomized experiment conducted in Morocco to estimate the impact of "labeled cash transfers," small cash transfers paid to fathers of school-aged children in poor, rural communities. These transfers were not conditional, but were explicitly labeled as an education support program. The study found that such transfers had a large impact on school participation, and that adding conditionality and targeting mothers made almost no difference.

Transparency International's 2013 Global Corruption Report focuses on corruption in education, specifically on the effects felt heavily by the world's poor and disadvantaged. In addition to providing an overview of global trends in this sector, this report includes a number of country-specific examples at the schooling and higher education levels.

The theme for the African Report on Child Wellbeing 2013 is accountability to children, and serves as a reminder that children’s rights and overall wellbeing are crucial aspects of any development agenda. It analyzes which African governments are child-friendly, notes that the number of child deaths has fallen significantly, while also highlighting the state of child well-being in fragile states.

Recognizing the growth of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector in Africa, Digital Jobs Africa (DJA) seeks to provide one million disadvantaged youth with employment opportunities and skills training in mobile and internet-based industries. This report identifies where Africa's digital economy will experience the most growth in the coming years and how key partnerships will maximize job opportunities for youths, in particular.